| Description |
1 online resource (111 pages) |
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Help Your Child to Succeed |
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Help Your Child to Succeed
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| Contents |
1 The barriers to boys' achievement and how parents can help boys to break through them -- Barrier 1 Too much pressure at pre-school -- Barrier 2 Lack of independence -- Barrier 3 Boys starting school linguistically less developed -- Barrier 4 Physiological needs not met -- Barrier 5 Negative attitudes to writing -- Barrier 6 Limited interest in reading -- Barrier 7 Inability to plan and prepare effectively -- Barrier 8 Peer pressure -- Barrier 9 The laddish culture -- Barrier 10 Emotional intelligence issues -- Barrier 11 A mismatch between how he is expected to work and his preferred way of working -- Barrier 12 Poor reflection skills -- Barrier 13 Low self-esteem and limiting self-beliefs -- Barrier 14 Lack of positive male role models -- 2 Let's hear it from the boys -- Homework -- Revision -- Coursework -- Aspirations -- 3 Boys can be turned around -- 4 How schools are responding to the problem -- Conclusion And finally ... PASS IT ON! |
| Summary |
At least once a year, around the time of examination results, the papers are full of stories of how boys are underachieving in comparison to girls. While arousing the curiosity, and often deeply troubling the parents of boys, the press, and indeed the government, rarely offers more than the 'laddish culture' or 'anti social behaviour' as the root cause. Parents deserve and need to know the full range of reasons why boys are underachieving and, fundamentally, what they can do to help prevent disaffection and underachievement in their boys. This highly informative and highly practical book contains strong messages about the need to develop independence in boys, the importance of male role models within the close (and extended) family and what to look out for in school, including signs of peer pressure and limiting negative self beliefs. It gives advice on how best to support boys in their learning and in developing self esteem |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Boys -- Education
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Success in children.
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Self-esteem in children.
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Child rearing.
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Parenting.
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Parent and child.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General.
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Boys -- Education
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Child rearing
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Parent and child
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Parenting
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Self-esteem in children
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Success in children
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008018931 |
| ISBN |
9781855396630 |
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1855396637 |
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1282877267 |
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9781282877269 |
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